Saturday it seems was our competitive highlight as we were unable to replicate our success in completing the course on either Sunday or Monday. Still we met our pre-trip goal and overall the trip has to be considered a success.
Even though overall a success there is a lot of room for improvement. I need to get more control over my dogs (both of them) at the top.
We have never worked at quite the distance we were working at in New Mexico (300 yards from handlers post to set out) and it showed. Maggie went into default circling mode and Piper busted in too hard bringing the sheep too fast and off line. I believe these are fixable and we will be back to work on them soon.
Indelible image of the weekend -- Herbert Holmes taking off on the quad to rescue Allison the one and only time her nursery dog had issues at the top. Every woman there thought it was great.
We met some nice people, had a bit of success on the trial field, a bit of fun in the thriving metropolis of Mountainair (the population of the Free to Be Ranch was close until folks started pulling out for the Colorado trials), and made the round trip safely without major incident.
Like Gen MacArthur, we shall return !
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